Pepe Newton

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Pepe Newton

Pepe is classikON's Managing Director. She is an avid concert-goer and self confessed choir nerd, regularly performing and touring with no less than 5 different choirs to countries ranging from Poland to Cuba over the last few years. Through her board positions in choirs and her role with classikON she is actively involved in the exciting Australian art music scene, including the promotion and commissioning of new Australian music. Running classikON presents a perfect opportunity for Pepe to pair her love of classical music with her ‘real life’ qualifications in business management and administration.
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New album ‘Undead’ presents arias – unapologetic, unafraid, totally living

Jessica O’Donoghue and Jack Symonds | ‘Undead’ album launch November 7, 2025, The Church, Alexandria, NSW Opera isn’t dead. It isn’t even sleeping. It’s right in front of us in […]

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SSO farewells 2025 Fellows with rising stars in concert

SSO | Farewelling Our Fellows 2025 31 October 2025, Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, NSW Presented by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship 2025 SSO Fellows Liam Pilgrim violin, Natalie Mavridis violin, Ariel […]

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ASQ celebrates forty years of artistry from Elegy to Ecstasy

Australian String Quartet | Convergence October 21, 2025, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW There’s something that feels just right about hearing a string quartet in The Neilson. The […]

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Sandwiches, Story-Theatre and Sonic Utopias: Brisbane Music Festival NOV 2025

Brisbane Music Festival | 2025 November 14 – 30 , FourthWall Arts, Brisbane, QLD When you speak with festival director Alex Raineri, you quickly sense that the Brisbane Music Festival […]

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Deep Listening, Bright Futures at First Peoples 2025 Composer Showcase

Ngarra-Burria | First Peoples 2025 Composers Showcase Wednesday 15 October, 2025, Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, NSW Presented by Ensemble Offspring In a space named after one of Australia’s great composer-conductors, […]

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Van Diemen’s Band + Ensemble Kaboul’s virtuosic journey across time + cultures

Van Diemen’s Band & Ensemble Kaboul | Where Everything is Music 4 October 2025, Leichhardt Town Hall, NSW Leichhardt Town Hall was packed on a warm Saturday night, an impressive […]

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Sydney Chamber Choir celebrates connection and a legacy alive and thriving

Sydney Chamber Choir | Connections 28 September 2025, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW The Sydney Chamber Choir marks its 50th year in 2025 and what a year of celebrations it has […]

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A Patch of Blue Somewhere – Rubiks Collective’s The Big Idea is absurdly brilliant

Rubiks Collective | The Big Idea 26 September 2025, ACO on the Pier – The Studio, Sydney, NSW by Matthew Shlomowitz & Vid Simoniti | World Premiere Artists: flautist Tamara […]

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From Solfège to Swingle – The Song Company at their eclectic best

The Song Company | Odd Couples Pairings 20 September, 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney NSW Guest Director: Huw Belling Soprano – Susannah Lawergren, Amy Moore (Co-Artistic Director) Mezzo-soprano – Jessica O’Donoghue […]

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Exile and Empire, Then and Now: The Cooperative’s Nabucco

The Cooperative | Verdi’s Nabucco 30 August 2025, Pitt Street Uniting Church, Sydney, NSW Conductor: Toby Wong Director: Menila Moineaux Cast Nabucco: Tristan Entwistle Abigaille: Livia Brash Young Abigaille: Violet Rose Olds […]

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New light on the Requiem – Gordon Kerry premieres with ACC

Australian Chamber Choir | Renaissance Requiem 17 August 2025, streamed from Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, VIC In Missa pro defunctis, composer Gordon Kerry gently rewrites the Requiem […]

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Sun and Grigoryan – dazzling virtuosity meets pulse and fire

Utzon Music | Emily Sun & Slava Grigoryan 17 August 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Today we witnessed the start of a musical partnership that feels like it’s been […]

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Sydney Philharmonia’s Lost Birds soar inside White Bay Power Station

Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers | Lost Birds 16 August 2025, White Bay Power Station, NSW It’s not every day you find yourself sipping coffee inside the belly of a decommissioned […]

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ABO + Circa = music and movement of the highest order

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Circa & The Art of Fugue 13 August 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Where do you look, when everything matters? That was the question circling […]

Sjaella sparkle in their Sydney Opera House debut

Utzon Music | Sjaella 13 July 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW With Sydney Harbour glittering through the Utzon Room’s glass wall and Fort Denison posing quietly in the […]

Rather civilised indeed! Operantics brings Austen’s drawing room to life

Operantics | No Charm Equal – Music From Jane Austen’s Drawing Room 11 July 2025 | Mosman Art Gallery, NSW It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in […]

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Sydney Chamber Choir – Five Composers, Fifty Years, One Word: Love

Sydney Chamber Choir | 50th Anniversary Gala July 5, 2025 City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Sydney Chamber Choir Sam Allchurch – Conductor Brooke Window – Soprano Richard Butler – Tenor […]

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Whitacre magically conjures up eternity in a hour

VOX conducted by Eric Whitacre | Eternity in an Hour 27 June 2025, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall , NSW Eric Whitacre doesn’t just conduct music. He sculpts it, shaping […]

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